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Alachua County sheriff's investigators say they are seeking the public's help in tracking down a woman who scammed up to five Gainesville apartment hunters out of more than $3,000.
Alachua County sheriff's investigators are seeking the public's help in tracking down a woman who scammed up to five Gainesville apartment hunters out of more than $3,000.
The woman luring the scam victims with Craigslist ads and false yard signs before showing and offering them a vacant apartment to rent that was actually being marketed by a legitimate real estate broker.
Jennifer Cowart, 35, a single mother of two boys — ages 7 and 8 — is one of three victims who contacted the Sheriff's Office on Wednesday to report the fraud, sheriff's officials said.
Cowart works as shift manager at the McDonald's on Archer Road and said she gave the woman all the money she had in order to secure the apartment located at in Woodside Villas, 7200 SW Eighth Ave. Cowart and two other victims contacted ASO to report they had each been defrauded out at least $1,000.
Cowart said her ordeal began on July 12 when she noticed a sign at the entrance of the apartment complex advertising the apartment for rent. When she called the number on the sign, she spoke with a woman who identified herself as Shannon McCleary. Cowart and the woman met that afternoon and the woman promised Cowart that if she paid her a $600 deposit, the apartment would be held for a couple of weeks until Cowart could come up with additional money for the first month's rent.
What Cowart would later learn is that earlier that morning, the same woman had met with a man who called her in response to a Craigslist ad and collected a $600 deposit from him as well, sheriff's officials said.
The following day, on July 13, a second female victim gave the same woman a deposit in the same amount, deputies said. The victims each met with the woman who identified herself as McCleary a second time in different locations to pay her additional money in the form of cashier's checks.
Cowart said when she met the alleged scammer at the Tower Road Library on July 24, the woman gave her a key and told her that she had to wait another day before she could go to the apartment. Cowart asked the woman for a lease, and was told one would be drawn up soon.
As she drove away, Cowart said she became suspicious and drove to the apartment anyway, but the key did not work. The other female victim opened the door and told Cowart that the woman identified as McCleary had given her a working key to the apartment but had never cleaned or painted the apartment as promised. Cowart drove back to the library, where she'd just met with the woman, but she was gone.
Shortly after Cowart returned to the apartment, sheriff's officials said, a third victim arrived and all three victims notified the Sheriff's Office.
It turns out the property was legally listed for rent by Matchmaker Realty. An agent for Matchmaker also went to the apartment on Wednesday to show it to a prospective tenant, but was shocked to find the lockbox had been broken and someone was inside.
The woman who identified herself as McCleary had used the key inside of the lockbox to get into the apartment to show all three victims, deputies said.
Rosa Travis, the owner of Matchmaker, said she sympathizes with the scam victims, but the owner of the property knew nothing about it.
"The woman who did this is hurting a lot of people," said Travis. "The people there now have no right to be there and so they have to move out. I realize they've been scammed and I feel badly, but there's nothing I can do."
Cowart described the suspect as a black female approximately 5-foot-5 with a thin build. The woman was wearing multi-colored scrubs and had a yellowing tooth in the front. She was wearing a hair cover when they met the first time, Cowart said.
The male victim told investigators the woman behind the scam had several other properties listed on Craigslist.
ASO spokesman Art Forgey said investigators hope to retrieve video footage from the public locations where the suspect met victims, including the parking lot of North Florida Regional Medical Center, a Chick-fil-A and the Tower Road Library.
"You really don't know what you're dealing with on Craigslist and it's ripe for scams," said Forgey. "If people decide to deal with Craigslist, they really have to try and make sure the person they are dealing with is legitimate and try to meet them in public places where there might be cameras in case something goes wrong."
Cowart and her two children have been staying with a relative while she hopes to get some or all or some of her money back in order to find a more permanent place to live.
"I really wanted my own place, and I thought I had a place," said Cowart. "But it turned out it wasn't really that lady's apartment."


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Football today is a business, and so it is rare to see a player devoting his entire career to a single club.
Is loyalty an old-fashioned quality or an important characteristic for a football player to have?
Here are 11 players who define the word loyal:
Goalkeeper: Iker Casillas | Real Madrid
At the age of 18, Iker Casillas debuted for one of the greatest teams in the history of the sport and for the past 13 years and six months has stuck with his club through thick and thin.
He has won the Spanish league five times, the Copa del Rey once, four Spanish Super Cups, the Champions League twice, the UEFA Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup once in 2002.
Casillas is one of the best goalkeepers around.
Right-back: Javier Zanetti | Inter Milan
Zanetti is one of the most loyal players to ever play football at the highest level. The 2012/13 campaign is his 19th consecutive season for Inter, during which he has won 16 official titles with the club.
Left-back: Philipp Lahm | Bayern Munich
Lahm played his first game for Bayern ten years ago but was lent to Stuttgart for two years before going back to Munich. But, ever since he did, the German left back, has been an example of loyalty and devotion to a club and, at the age of 29, is already captain of the club and will probably stay there until the end of his career.
Centre-back: Carles Puyol | Barcelona
Puyol has only known one club his all career and has been a very important member of the Barcelona team that has dominated Europe in the last years. In his career for the Blaugrana, Puyol won 19 titles including three Champions League and five Spanish Leagues.
Centre-back: Rio Ferdinand | Manchester United
Ferdinand is probably one of the toughest players to ever play football at the highest level. Throughout his career the english international has faced numerous injuries but was always able to come back even stronger.
Centre-midfield: Xavi | Barcelona
Xavi is one of the greatest midfielders around. A product of Barcelona's youth, the Spanish devoted his career to the club in a successful manner winning several titles both individual and collective.
Centre-midfield: Paul Scholes | Manchester United
Since 1992, Paul Scholes has won more titles than most n his career. The English football player retired in 2011 but when his team needed him, he came back and at the end of last season signed yet another extension on his contract.
Right-wing: Steven Gerrard | Liverpool
The third spot as a midfielder of the Loyalty XI belongs to Steven Gerrard. The English midfielder is a legend on Merseyside. Lacking the Premier League title is the only downside to his career in Liverpool, but that fact only makes him an even greater fit for the Loyalty XI.
Currently the Reds captain is at his 15th season at Anfield with has shown no signs of wanting to leave any time soon. Some might say if Gerrard hadn't had as many injuries as he did throughout his career he might have already won the FIFA Ballon d'Or award.
Left-wing: Ryan Giggs | Manchester United
The Welshman has played for Manchester United since 1990 and no other player has won as many titles as him.
Giggs is an example for all football players around the world, combining skill with willingness, toughness and devotion. Giggs is, without a doubt, one of the greatest football players in the history of the game.
The Champions League match against Real Madrid this year marked Giggs' 1000th match as a professional.
Striker: Francesco Totti | AS Roma
If you mention AS Roma, then Francesco Totti's name will follow. In his 20th season for the Italian club, Totti has scored 225 goals, which ties him for second most goals in Serie A history.
Striker: Raul | Real Madrid
Currently playing in Al Sadd, Raul Gonzalez made history in Real Madrid's Galaticos team. The eternal Blancos' number 7 played for 16 years at Santiago Bernabéu and scored 323 goals in 741 games.
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First Nations Studies
Interdisciplinary Major or Minor
(Bachelor of Arts)
Professor — Clifford Abbott
Associate Professors — Rosemary Ackley Christensen, Lisa Poupart (chair), Denise Sweet
Web site: www.uwgb.edu/fns/
First Nation Studies Major Requirements | First Nation Studies Minor Requirements | Course Descriptions
First Nations Studies is an interdisciplinary degree program that reflects the holistic worldview of the indigenous people of Turtle Island (North America). First Nations Studies is committed to the study of First Nations culture, philosophy, history, language, and the social, economic, and political status of indigenous people and their communities. The program is designed to preserve and promote the identity and sovereign status of indigenous people through the study and practice of decolonization. The program places particular emphasis on the nations in our region, the Western Great Lakes.
First Nations Studies incorporates the teaching and learning approaches of tribal people, offering students a new way to learn within the academy. The program places emphasis on the oral tradition of First Nations people as preserved and shared by tribal Elders. Students take part in oral traditional learning experiences within the university classroom and, also, in tribal communities learning from tribal people.
The program is of interest to both American Indian and non-Indian students who wish to learn more about the traditional cultures and knowledge of indigenous people as well as the changes experienced by American Indian nations as a result of Euro-American contact.
The program offers a major and a minor. The minor strengthens numerous degrees including those in Business, History, Education, Social Work, Humanistic Studies, and the natural and social sciences. The degrees prepare students to live and work in an increasingly diverse community and also equip students with skills to work cooperatively and effectively with tribal governments and businesses.


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Title: Doris Hurt Powers papers, 1945-2011
Primary Creator: Hurt Powers, Doris (1927 - 2009)
Extent: 2.0 Cubic feet. More info below.
The Doris Hurt Powers papers are organized into 5 series:
1. Biographical Information, 1942 – 2011 (0.4 cubic feet)
This series includes resume information, newspaper clippings, an autobiography, documentation about the various awards and honors given to Powers, and several early flight log books.
2. Photographs, 1944 – 2006 (0.3 cubic feet)
Series 2 documents Doris Hurt Power's time as a Purdue University student and as a successful alumni receiving awards. There is also a series of photographs, with interesting captions, from her 1991 trip to the Soviet Union.
3. Pamphlets, 1947 – 2006 (0.2 cubic feet)
This series includes informational pamphlets from various Purdue awards programs, business venture, astronaut school, and Society of Women Engineers publications.
4. Speeches, 1984 – 2008 (0.2 cubic feet)
Many of these speeches are variations of a single autobiographical narrative, about the difficulties and exultations of being a young woman pilot and engineer. Additionally, several speeches give advice on succeeding in business or other careers.
5. Artifacts, circa 1942 – 1990 (0.8 cubic feet)
This series contains three items: a sorority pledge paddle, a sorority pendant, and a desk nameplate.
Date Acquired: 04/03/2009
Subjects: Aeronautics, Businesswomen, Civil engineering, Powers, Doris Hurt, Society of Women Engineers. Purdue Student Section, Women's Archives at Purdue University, Women air pilots
Forms of Material: Photographic prints, Publications, Speeches
Languages: English
Civil engineering
Powers, Doris Hurt
Society of Women Engineers. Purdue Student Section
Women's Archives at Purdue University
Women air pilots
Repository: Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Alternate Extent Statement: 3 mss. boxes, one large flat box
Access Restrictions: Collection is open for research.
Acquisition Source: Laura Powers
Acquisition Method: Mailed to Archives and Special Collections in April, 2009.
Preferred Citation: MSA 2, Doris Hurt Powers papers, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
Other URL: http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/fa/pdf/msa2_powers.pdf


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As usual, never consider the following commentary associated with these photos as a formal interpretation of the National Electrical Code (NEC). Without criticizing anyone or any product, the following scenarios present us with serious safety questions.
All references are based on the 2005 NEC.
Too Close for Comfort
This service drop and service entrance conductors are positioned much too close to this window. As per 230.9, "service conductors and final spans shall comply with 230.9(A), (B), and (C)."
The requirements of 230.9(A) state when service conductors are installed as open conductors or in a multiconductor cable without an overall outer jacket they're required to have a clearance of no less than 900 mm (3 feet) from windows that are designed to be opened. This same requirement pertains to doors, porches, balconies, ladders, stairs, fire escapes, or similar locations. An exception to this rule allows you to run the conductors above the top level of a window and exempts you from meeting the 900 mm minimum separation requirement noted above.
Extending Rules a Little Too Far
I found this installation on a church property in the Midwest. It was one of four similar arrangements at this location. The short piece of extension cord was connected to the pole's circuit conductors behind the taped up cover. The property was under renovation, so I have to assume the lack of an outdoor GFCI-protected receptacle led to this problem.
Extension cords are permitted by the NEC, but not for this use or where permanently connected. Take note of the following Code references:
• 240.5(B)(3), Extension Cord Sets — "Flexible cord used in listed extension cord sets shall be considered to be protected when applied within the extension cord listing requirements."
• 240.5(B)(4), Field Assembled Extension Cord Sets — "Flexible cord used in extension cords made with separately listed and installed components shall be permitted to be supplied by a branch circuit in accordance with the following: 20A circuits, 16 AWG, and larger."
In addition, flexible cord and cable uses permitted and not permitted are outlined in 400.7 and 400.8.
Found a Code Violation? E-mail your photos to Joe Tedesco at [email protected].


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Sheridan City Council meets Monday night
SHERIDAN — The Sheridan City Council will receive a pavement maintenance project update from City Manager Frank Sheridan when it meets at 7 p.m. Monday in City Hall.
The primary work being considered is the Center Street project, north from the intersection of Yamhill to Blair Street.
Renata Wakeley of the Mid-Willamette Valley Council of Governments will address the council concerning Community Development Block Grants that are available for the city's sewer improvement project.
For information, call the city at 503-843-2347.


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WACO, Texas — Texas law enforcement officials on Friday launched a criminal investigation into the massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 14 people last month, after weeks of largely treating the blast as an industrial accident.
The announcement came the same day that a paramedic who helped to evacuate residents the night of the explosion was arrested on a charge of possessing a destructive device, though it is not clear whether the charge is related to the April 17 blast at West Fertilizer Co.
The Texas Department of Public Safety said in a Friday statement that the agency had instructed the Texas Rangers and the McLennan County Sheriff's Department to conduct a criminal probe into the explosion.
"This disaster has severely impacted the community of West, and we want to ensure that no stone goes unturned and that all the facts related to this incident are uncovered," DPS Director Steven McCraw said.
McLennan County Sheriff Parnell McNamara said residents "must have confidence that this incident has been looked at from every angle and professionally handled — they deserve nothing less."
The statement did not detail any further reasons for the criminal investigation and said no additional information would be released.
Paramedic Bryce Reed, meanwhile, was in federal custody following his arrest on the charge of possessing a destructive device. Reed was booked into the McLennan County Jail at 2:40 a.m. and released before 8 a.m. to agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, according to jail booking clerk Brandy Gann.
Reed made an initial appearance in federal court in Waco on Friday, but did not enter a plea. Assistant US Attorney Mark Frazier said he would not release further details until court documents were unsealed sometime later in the day.
Officials have largely treated the explosion as an industrial accident, though investigators still searching for the cause of a fire that preceded the blast have said they would treat the area as a crime scene until all possibilities were considered. Authorities have focused on ammonium nitrate, a chemical commonly used as a fertilizer, but that also can be explosive in the right conditions, as the cause of the explosion.
Reed was one of several paramedics who helped evacuate residents from nearby apartments after the fire erupted and shortly before the explosion. He has spoken to The Associated Press extensively, and said he was devastated by the explosion, which killed one of his closest friends, Cyrus Reed. The two are not related.
Bryce Reed's wife, Brittany Reed, declined to comment early Friday.
"I can't. No comment, no comment no comment right now," she said before hanging up the phone.


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Shawnee Pottery was started in Zanesville, Ohio, in 1937. The company made vases, novelty ware, flowerpots, planters, lamps, and cookie jars. Three dinnerware lines were made: Corn, Lobster Ware, and Valencia (a solid color line). White Corn pattern utility pieces were made in 1945. Corn King was made from 1946 to 1954; Corn Queen, with darker green leaves and lighter colored corn, from 1954 to 1961. The Corn King and Corn Queen lines of dinner plates, teapots, and salt and pepper sets were molded and colored to resemble ears of corn, with kernels of corn and leaves. Shawnee produced pottery for George Rumrill during the late 1930s. The company closed in 1961.
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Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) January 06, 2013
MyTSOnline, better known as Travel Services, is expanding due to popular demand as travel clubs popularity greatly increases each year.
According to General Manager Samuel Hicks at Travel Services, incorporated in Nevada, and now headquartered in their new facility in Florida, "TSOnline is excited to venture into this growth phase. Just because we're getting bigger, doesn't mean we're not getting better as well. We are always signing up new vendors to get lower prices and we pride ourselves on giving our clients excellent customer service. We don't just go the extra mile. We bend over backwards, and do whatever it takes. Not to mention, because of the volume of trips we book, our prices just can't be beat. When clients get excellent service and pay a third of the price than what they were looking at, it makes a great winning combination."
Travel Services is the back end support for travel clubs all across the United States.
To become a member, one must attend a sales presentation at a local office. Members are required to pay a one time lifetime membership fee and nominal annual dues. In return, they receive the ability to book any and all travel at cost, as well as access timeshare resort condos for a fraction of the price.
One piece of advice for the sales presentations is to be ready to join that day as the first day incentives are very appealing.
Travel Services has been in business since 1997 and has an A+ rating with the Nevada BBB.


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Mon Jul 09, 2007 8:01 pm
ekenee wrote: I have 4 questions concerning the fox news film.
Mon Jul 09, 2007 11:30 pm
PiersEIN wrote:"Elvissessions," given your reputation here (in your very charitable "you can't make this stuff up" way), you've confirmed for me at least that the challenger indeed has a true axe to grind.
Most, if not all, hard-core Elvis collectors are passionate people who have strong opinions (LOL).
Tue Jul 10, 2007 12:00 am
ekenee wrote:I have 4 questions concerning the fox news film.
1. With the many included audience shots cutting away from Elvis, even during songs, are we to assume that these were only used when the film maker stopped filming for a second then continued filming?
I find it hard to believe that they filmed in such a choppy way.
Tue Jul 10, 2007 2:59 pm
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thecolonel wrote:Regarding the overheard conversation:
Having been a part of some of these discussions with Stanley and Joseph my guess is that the comments about the fans were related to their frustration that most of the attendees at Elvis Week these days are more interested in hearing impersonators and buying potholders than they are with when Ernst's Sun book will be released.
Wed Jul 11, 2007 4:46 am
The Purple Gang wrote:However, in light of the comments made by Pirzada in the EIN interview [regarding photos in the first two MRS volumes] it seems appropriate to make a couple of more detailed points.
A lot of the photos used here have definitely been copied straight from other books and the picture quality drops where this has happened. Most damning is the fact that several photos have been lifted from the FTD 'Flashback' book.
This is most evident on pages 75 and 122 of the Tupelo book where if you look closely you can still see the binding marks where they have been copied from the Flashback book that had them running across two pages (p.102-3, 90-91 respectively).
In addition, the shot used in 'Tupelo's Own' on p.42 has been cropped from a 2-page spread p94-5 in 'Flashback'.
There are probably another half-dozen examples of this.
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Forsan school trustees meet Monday
FORSAN — School district trustees here will consider improvement to district-owned housing when they hold their regular monthly meeting at 7 p.m. Monday in the administration building board room.
Forsan Independent School District currently provides 14 houses on a reduced-rent basis to administrators and other extra-duty personnel such as coaches and band directors. But age is starting to catch up to those dwellings, Superintendent Randy Johnson said.
"We have funds budgeted to replace the electrical wiring and perform general maintenance to two of those houses this fiscal year," Johnson said. "A big part of this is safety — we've got a lot of old wiring in those houses that needs to be replaced."
The procedure is anything but cheap, he added.
"We've got to pull out all of the wiring. That means we'll have a lot of holes in the walls," he said. "Then we need to patch those holes, repaint and perform other maintenance. Plus we have to decide if we're going to help with relocation costs for the people living in those homes."
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The favorite subject is people: models in the studio surrounded by beautiful location, but also men, women, children portrayed in the reportage around the world.
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Vintage skirt with side-pleats
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London, United K...
This pattern was a present to me from my brother, who found it for 25p in a junkshop and decided it looked like 'my sort of thing'! Despite the 1960s date it's actually much more of a Fifties style skirt (View B appears to be an incipient miniskirt, though!), and I thought the generous side pleats might make for an useful garment for an active lifestyle: my previous attempt at a skirt with a fitted top is a little tight to stride out in.
Unfortunately I sabotaged this by setting out to use up a piece of scrap linen I had salvaged – as you can see from these shots, any attempt at 'activity' (including sitting or bending down to tie one's own shoelaces…) and the skirt is creased for the rest of the day! Linen, so predictable….
I'm still pleased with the result, even if it's a skirt I can only wear on days when I'm not going to be sitting down much. I decided to make view C (not illustrated on the front of the envelope: it's the longer view A length combined with the ornamental belt and carriers from view B), which was a good move as the dangling belt helps to distract from the inevitable set of creases in the front of the skirt. I lengthened the belt (shaped from three curved pieces so that it lies flat around the hips) by a couple of inches because I was afraid it wouldn't stay done up at the illustrated length; I also lengthened the skirt by an inch and a half at the last minute to make sure it covered the top of my socks!
Otherwise the result was pretty close to the illustration – and the good thing about patterns of this era is that the hip/waist ratio matches mine pretty closely. I didn't have to take in the waist or expand the hips this time.
I did have to do a swayback adjustment again, however. In fact I did it three times, each more extreme, after panicking when the first attempt didn't seem to have eliminated the sagging in the small of my back – eventually I spotted that I was simply making matters worse, went back to my original adjustment markings, and realised that the problem was caused by having only sewn the front edge and not the reverse of the waistband….
The other panic was over the side pleats, which persisted in inverting themselves in a "Rolling Stones" effect – all gaping lips and lolling tongue! Eventually I took some tailoring tips and clapped on a hardwood block to suck up the moisture after steaming the pleats sewn shut: not having a tailor's clapper, I used a bit of old drawer-front out of the loft. Amazingly, it worked. They still have a certain tendency to bulge at the end of the day, but they now bulge inwards and not out.
The seams all had to be hand-finished. I used hand-sewn self-bound seams for attaching the backs of the pleats (which are sewn down flat onto folded-in flaps at the edges of the skirt pieces), but the existence of the side pleats and of the centre zipper meant that all the main skirt seams had to be pressed open, thus ruling out run-and-fell or French seam finishes here. In the end I simply cut very wide seam allowances (for once in my life I actually had more than enough fabric) and hemmed the raw edges under. The machine top-stitching on the outside of the pleats proved quite tricky, and where the seams grew too narrow a few inches from the top I simply abandoned them and back-stitched the remainder and the top 'arrow' by hand (see photo). After which I had to hem down the unfinished tops of the pleats! Twenty hours or so of 'couture' finishing work that would have been saved by a serger – still, home sergers didn't exist until 1964 :-p
Because I decided to increase the skirt length at the last minute I didn't have enough material to make the recommended 3-inch hem. I compromised by using some ancient (vintage!) bias binding out of my grandmother's workbox as a hem tape substitute, and it actually worked extremely well – it was lightweight enough to fold around the pleats without causing problems, and stretchy enough to ease in the fullness of the flared skirt more or less automatically. I might try this again. It did use up an awful lot of tape though!
Reversing the self-bound seams in order to hem the pleats was NOT MUCH FUN :-(
I'd left the ends unfinished, but it still involved an awful lot of clipping and folding to render all those raw edges now mercifully invisible….
The zipper was also inserted by hand – mainly because my hand-crank machine doesn't have a zipper foot, so using it to stitch that close to the seams is out of the question. The original pattern specified a simple centred zip, but I altered that to a lapped zipper, mainly because my hand-stitched zips always seem to 'bulge' so – the fewer visible seams, the better. Of course inserting the zipper placket involved a whole new set of raw edges which had to be tacked into position in order to ensure that they were imprisoned by the correct seams.
I tried 'hand-picking' the zipper instead of using a sturdy backstitch, but it didn't make much difference to the bulge (see also back view photo) – the zip teeth simply stick up higher than the underlying tape, and lift the fabric above them. I'm not sure how you avoid that :-(
The super-large hooks and eyes/bars used to fasten the waistband are also very 'vintage': out of my grandmother's workbox again! The belt carriers are turned fabric tubes; I found it quite impossible to fight the seam allowance down the inside of the tube using the width suggested (and dared not cut the seams any closer on this fraying fabric) so ended up increasing the size of the tube by 1/8", which proved to make all the difference.
Material Notes
Linen of unknown origin – originally a sort of unattractive unbleached hessian colour. The cost of the dark brown dye was the chief expense of the project, since all the other components were 'scrounged'!
An 8-inch zipper from my brother's stash, and a scrap of broad black ribbon to back it with.
Lightweight bias binding and vintage hook fasteners from my grandmother's workbox (circa 1960s)
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Aug 18, 2012, 12.01 PMby Lidia Esther
GOOD JOB, i too love that side slit!
Apr 27, 2012, 10.27 PMby nookie
how beautiful – the pleats are so subtle.
Apr 27, 2012, 11.24 AMby tessi
Very nicely done!
Apr 27, 2012, 05.56 AMby Ralf Schmitz
i love this skirt and i think that all your efforts put in show well and bring you a lovely result! Well done!
Apr 27, 2012, 01.45 AMby skeeler
I adore this skirt. I was thinking about making side pleats on a skirt once, now I know to just do it… Also, I have that waist to hip ratio issue…maybe I just need to start using old patterns!
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The country's state-run television channel China Central Television is airing an anime that appears to be ripping off Japan's Pokémon, Naruto and Digimon franchises.
This is not the first time Japanese anime has been copied by Chinese broadcasts, reports website Record China. Both Crayon Shin-chan and animated film 5 Centimeters Per Second has been reworked for Chinese viewers without permission or proper attribution.
This latest "borrowing" is a Chinese anime about dinosaurs that heavily borrows characters and plot line from Pokémon, Naruto and Digimon.
When asked about the anime, those in charge at the government's CCTV replied that the issue was with the actual company the produced this Chinese anime. What's more, CCTV didn't seem to think this rip-off was so bad. "This is a rip off?," a spokesperson at the channel added. "What's being called a rip? What's being called a copy? Please think first, then talk."
Since September 2006, foreign anime has been banned on Chinese television between 5am and 8am — prime time for kids. This decision on the part of the Chinese government is to improve the domestic anime business.
中国TV局がまたまた日本アニメをパクる!今度は「ナルト」や「ポケモン」-中国 [Record China via http://news.livedoor.com/article/detail/4344811/>Livedoor]


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Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869September 13, 1937) was an American author.
Butler was born in Muscatine, Iowa. He was the author of more than 30 books and more than 2,000 stories and essays, and is most famous for his short story "Pigs is Pigs", in which a bureaucratic stationmaster insists on levying the livestock rate for a shipment of two pet guinea pigs, which soon start proliferating geometrically.
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Honk if You Know Why You're Honking
The car horn is beeping useless.
My mom is not much of a honker. You know what I mean when I say that: If a driver in front of her fails to hit the gas when the light turns, she simply waits. Time passes, and the green light glows. Eventually, the driver notices the signal change, or the cars behind begin to lay on their horns. Traffic proceeds. But no thanks to my mom; she's just not much of a honker.
For years I've been telling my mom that she ought to learn to honk a little more. After all, honking is a venerable automotive tradition. Just over a century ago, Henry Ford's first Model T rolled off the production line. Inside, near the driver's side window, was a grapefruit-sized squeeze bulb affixed to a twice-looped brass trumpet. It was a horn—one of only a few basic amenities that came standard. Thus, the car that "put the world on wheels" also gave the world a way to complain about it: a horn for the great honking masses.
And honk we have. No one keeps official tallies, but with nearly 1 billion cars on the roads, there is no doubt that worldwide honking is on the rise. In dense cities in places like India and China, where hordes of new drivers are now navigating ancient tenement districts, horn-honking is so constant that it is a major noise problem. In July, traffic police in Mumbai launched a "No Honking Movement" led by taxi drivers who took an oath not to toot. Last year, Shanghai banned honking downtown, with the prohibition set to expand to the entire city. Dhaka is a riot of honking. Cairo is the unofficial honking capital of the world. Islamabad, Ho Chi Minh City, Lima, Katmandu, Accra, and New York have issues. Even the virtual world is getting into the act.
In theory, the horn is a safety device; it might rightly be called the world's first "collision-avoidance system." But exactly how many collisions it serves to avoid has never been clear. From its earliest days, some observers wondered whether the horn wasn't actually facilitating certain road mishaps by shifting the burden of evasion from the honker to the honkee. A Londoner argued this case in a 1912 letter to the Times: "Drivers have escaped punishment because they hooted loudly just before killing an aged and deaf colonel, or an elderly woman, deaf, and blind of one eye, or capsizing another car and injuring three or four persons … Ordinary care and precaution would have prevented each of such accidents. Hooting, however, is counted a sufficient set-off against the lack of such care and precaution."
By the 1930s, this judgment was gaining converts. First Paris and then London outlawed horn-honking at night. In 1935, New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia kicked off a nighttime honking ban with a radio address in which he praised the English anti-horn effort: "The results have been so good that there is no demand from any quarter for their return. Automobile accidents, fatalities, and injuries have been reduced to an appreciable extent merely because the campaign against horns there has caused drivers to drive more carefully." He said deaths were down 17 percent and injuries 7 percent since the ban had taken effect. A New York Times article from the same year documented new horn restrictions in Rome, Stockholm, Vienna, and Berlin, under the headline, "Honking Autoist a World Problem; Every Nation Seeks to Curb Him; Horns Viewed as Contributing Cause of Accidents Rather Than Aid to Safety—Campaign On Here to Curb Drivers Who Depend on Blasts Instead of Brakes."
This assessment of the horn—that it is not in fact an instrument of safety but something else entirely—has not been refuted. Most honking research has examined the relationship between horn use and aggression. People honk more when it's hot than when it's cold, more on weekdays than on weekends, more if they are male than if they are female, more at beaters than at Benzes, more if they feel they can do so anonymously (PDF), and more in the city than in the country. My mother is a classic nonhonker: She is female, suburban, patient, and climate-control-oriented. Still, it would be nice to know whether her anti-honk bias poses a risk to society. A spokesman for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Jose Ucles, could not point to any studies on safety and the car horn. "It's sort of like brakes," he said. "Everyone's just always thought it was a good idea."
Jeff Muttart, a traffic-accident reconstructionist, has pored over hundreds of surveillance videos of real-life car crashes and near-crashes. In 2005, he concluded that emergency horn use is not associated with decreased accident involvement. He found that drivers never steered and honked at the same time, and usually they didn't honk at all. About half of emergency honks were meant to chastise and came only after the danger was over. The other half were just preludes to a crash. "It really didn't serve any purpose at all. It was just, Hey, by the way, I'm going to hit you."
Also: We stink at honking. A 2001 survey for the U.K. Institute of Traffic Accident Investigators shows that most people take two to three times as long to honk as they do to brake or steer. Professional drivers, like cabbies, are a bit quicker—they practice. (Now that automakers are getting over the whole tiny-horn-buttons craze, honk times may improve.)
Muttart explains this honking deficiency by the fact that many people view the horn as a tool for scolding rather than safety. So when we want to avoid a crash, we don't think to use it. (You don't look for a phone when you need a fire extinguisher.) It's possible honk speeds are better in India, where no one overlooks the horn, and the honking is more existential than aggressive. Of course, the street noise there can be literally deafening, and India's roads have one of the highest death rates in the world.
Perhaps the world just needs more standardized honking education. Here are some tips from AAA on how to use the horn to warn a child cyclist: "Ideally, you should sound the horn when you're about a half-block away … If you blast the horn at close range, you'll startle the cyclist. He may look over his left shoulder in surprise and steer inadvertently into your path. Worse, he may lose control and fall directly in front of you."
In other words: If you see a kid on a bike and he's at least a half-block away (the block being the standard unit of distance used by AAA's honking scientists), then give a toot. But take care: If you screw up, you may crush his tiny body beneath your wheels. This kind of messaging hardly helps: Instead of teaching us good behavior, it makes us afraid of the horn and takes the joy out of honking.
The truth is, many cities have already ruled out all the lighthearted, benign uses of the horn—rolling up to a girlfriend's house with a cool beep-beep, practicing Morse code in the grocery store parking lot … S-O-S … Saaaaave Ouuuur Shiiiiip! Even honking to celebrate Obama can get you a ticket. All that's left now are the aforementioned and ineffective "emergency" hoots. If that's the case, maybe we should eliminate honking altogether.
In Berlin in 1936, the Nazis put yellow spots on the cars of people who honked unnecessarily. The honking ceased. Memphis in the 1950s was called "the quietest city" thanks to a tough horn law. But horn bans are hard to enforce and maintain. In Cairo, drivers outmaneuvered an ordinance by reverting to squeeze horns. Shanghai's ban last year reportedly inspired one driver to install a custom horn that played a recording: "Please mind the car, we are making a turn." New Yorkers honk unflinchingly in the face of the city's many silly "Don't Honk" signs. Hey, man, free speech!
New weapons are joining the War on Honking. The Automobile Horn Audit System could track honk rate and location and transmit data to a state-run central computer. Australia is deploying "noise cameras." And in a nod to the Nazis, some Manhattanites want to fit cabs with lights to identify deviant honkers. Others say, Let's turn up the honk volume inside cars. The boors among us prefer eggs, or Taliban-style hand dismemberment. A more modest proposal, made by psychologist Charles Spence, is to replace the horn with a sharp spike protruding from the steering wheel. The spike would make driving "feel more dangerous," so people would go slower.
Last summer I was in Colombia on vacation, and one day I visited downtown Medellin. I was sporting sunglasses, short pants, and dirty white flip-flops. Near the Botero sculpture garden, after checking my map, I stepped into the road. A spray of honks ensued. Cars and motorbikes buzzed past. I felt as if I'd been Tased. But I was alive: a well-timed honk had saved my life.
Or maybe it hadn't. It felt like a near-miss, but the driver had seen me several seconds earlier, in time to honk me out of the way. Maybe he didn't even need to honk. Maybe he could have braked instead. That's what my mom would have done. Or what if his car had been equipped with the spike?
Horns don't honk at people. People honk at people. Whatever legislative remedies or gadgeteer fixes we can invent, I'm counting on one fact: We won't give up our horns until they're pried from our cold, dead, honking hands.


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She's got that ticket I think she's gonna use it
And she's gone to fly away
Where you're going
No one shouldn't try and stop her
Persuade it with that power
She's a damn her mind is name.
This is story off
Yeah we all tryin to live worry free
Pretty young things perfection is like currency
Talking bout a country girl living in a city though
Searching but she get her more
Count us from this video,
Girl you'll be killing and searching your faith or new tears
Girl you're tryin to fire especially after a few beers
Already broke the resolution for a new year
They blushin 'cause they sayin it's nothing inside a few years
Until I game across the state I used to baby sit
At the club looking for this lame she had a baby with
Wait a minute you're only 17 and she said to me
My baby get this strength to lead the city life ain't meant for m
Five the kent bother man and meet my piece
So often this the money 'cause she started the jade to me
I through you in bed I slay this niggas faithfully
I don't need you to pay for me, I just need to pray for me
She's got that ticket I think she's gonna use it
And she's gone to fly away
Where you're going
No one shouldn't try and stop her
Persuade it with that power
She's a damn her mind is name.
Girl can change your mind
When you call up and captain say that ain't no hero
What you really ring to the table let's keep the real dough
No matter where you're going if you don't get your mind right
First choose between two... like this is twilight
She up in the kitchen tonight cooking the...
Gotta take you to right the Peter Pan plus
She gotta take it to... she got a grant...
She gotta take it to fly she had a lan and she try
She tryin to avoid the trap is like the cancer
The love and money runnin the... that she a dancer
Not the blow going in oh to keep her dancin
The high is the only escape, she like a phantom
A ghost just to sell of herself packing them ass tense
Closer to selling herself who's in the access
Ain't nothing left to shake let's break it all down
Got then sign the vein she takin all now
Fly high, fly fly
Sky high, yeah
Hole up, where you're going girl
Where you're going, hole up
Where you're going girl
Where you're going, hole up
Where you're going girl
Where you're going, hole up
Where you're going, damn.
Damn, I'll found her later that she don't know who her father was
I'm like this crazy and baby ain't gotta start the kids
She never met the real... foe they try to steal the goodies
And breaking into a candy store
We all in pistols and willy wanka for soldier system
'Cause when we're taking the gold and taking the coldest winter
Statistic and give me the true is pitchin
And out of youth the visionary gonna mission for new beginning
It's hard enough for you... and it's twenty block radio
It's wondering who the father of the baby is
To pay relationships to her like sound fiction out to table
And public you write a buy you and provide it with the title
Body of a woman with the eyes of a child
Driven that she could... is it now
Want the future to be write us a smile she like the...
I see and spin it that, well a fortune is by vow
Hole up,
I realized early that black girl is carrying universe inside their bodies
Writing to be named whole continent
Land masters that were once connected
Flow through her arms fingers, chest, legs, stomach
Feet and head
Ghanna is her heart, her lungs charity
Her tongue I'm... , her bones massai
Her breath... her skin the color of Moroccan
Sand in south african sky lines
Her blue blood separates the land fro our riversand great legs
The place where we shit and drink
The place that we love and hate
Colonize and liberate
Conquer and rebuilt right and so up
Escape and imprisoned
The place where questions like if you a woman
Raise your hand will get you killed
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What is Robotic Surgery?
Robotic Procedures
Atrial Septal Defect
Mitral Valve Disease
Cardial Tumors
(Atrial Myxoma and Thombi)
Coronary Artery Disease
Aortic Valve Repair
Gynecologic Robotic Surgery
Pelvic Prolapse
Prostate Cancer/Prostatectomy
Bladder Cancer
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Myasthenia Gravis (Thymectomy)
The mitral valve is a complex structure that controls blood flow through the left side of the heart. When open, the mitral valve allows blood to flow into the heart's main pumping chamber, the left ventricle. When the left ventricle contracts to push blood through the body, the mitral valve closes to prevent blood from flowing back toward the lungs.
Sometimes the mitral valve is abnormal from birth or becomes damaged by infection. More often, mitral valve structures become damaged with age or from coronary artery disease.
Whatever the cause, an abnormal or damaged mitral valve cannot completely seal the heart's left ventricle. With an incomplete seal, blood can escape the left ventricle and flow backwards through the mitral valve. This conflicting force can make the heart work harder, leading to further mitral valve damage and other potential complications such as congestive heart failure.
Surgical repair involves delicate reconstruction of native valve tissues in order to restore proper function. The most common approach to repair requires the surgeon to saw open the breastbone and spread the ribs to gain direct access to the heart.
Cutting the sternum and opening the rib cage — the body's natural protective structure for the heart — can prolong healing time, increase risk of infection, serious complications and even mortality.
If your doctor recommends surgical repair, you may be a candidate for a new, less invasive surgical procedure called da Vinci Mitral Valve Repair (da Vinci MVR). This procedure uses a state-of-the-art surgical system designed to help your surgeon see vital anatomical structures more clearly and to perform a more precise operation.


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The Obama administration has released a proposed 2011 budget with cuts for agriculture in crop insurance and direct payment subsidies. It also lowers the farm payment eligibility caps from $750,000 (for farm income) and $500,000 (for non-farm income) to $500,000 and $250,000, respectively.
Essentially, they're cutting future dollars to save dimes.
The long-term outlook for U.S. agriculture is bright. Over the next few decades, the world population is expected to grow to 9 billion, and more and more of the world population is expected to move into the middle class, which will put greater demand on U.S. farmers to provide food, feed, fuel and fiber.
In addition, U.S. farmers are crucial to the Obama administration's effort to curb greenhouse gas emissions through expansion of the renewable fuels standard. According to a just-released EPA computer model, corn-based ethanol can reduce greenhouse emissions by as much as 52 percent. In addition, cellulosic ethanol can achieve a greenhouse gas reduction of 72 percent to 130 percent depending upon feedstock and the conversion process, according to the EPA's model.
However, neither Obama's goals of energy independence nor a new world prosperity can be realized without an efficient, environmentally-conscious and sustainable U.S. agricultural sector, with access to good credit, adequate crop insurance, research and development, a safety net that kicks in when prices sink below the cost of production and disaster assistance for when crops aren't harvested for whatever reason.
We owe a debt of gratitude to the congressional leaders from the agricultural states for their constant efforts to remind Congress and the Obama administration that U.S. agriculture represents the apex of efficiency, technology, environmental stewardship and farming skill, and they need to stay in business.
But frankly, this latest round of proposed cutbacks demonstrates a serious misunderstanding, or perhaps contempt, for how important U.S. agriculture is — even to the administration's own plans.
And it is extremely discouraging that Congress continues to ignore the need for timely disaster assistance for Mid-South producers, who experienced severe losses in yield and quality due to the 4 to 5 feet of rainfall that fell during the latter part of the growing season in 2009. I have talked to producers who tell me they'll be carrying the loss on their ledgers for years to come, making their margin for error very slim indeed.
Simply put, to continue to ignore the needs of U.S. farmers is not in the best interests of economic recovery, short-term or long-term. It's time to make agriculture a part of the solution, not a scapegoat.
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In this lesson, preschoolers focus on the alphabet by learning the letters L, R, and K. Kids are guided through the classic children's story of The Lion and the Rat, with an accompanying curriculum that targets each child's understanding of the unique sounds these letters make. Seeing the letters in a fun, engaging environment also reinforces the letter recognition skills crucial for early readers.
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After the Phillies won the NL East and clinched home-field advantage throughout the playoffs, fans began to play matchmaker. Would the Phillies rather play the lefty-heavy Arizona Diamondbacks, or the Milwaukee Brewers' wealth of right-handed hitters? The Phillies will enter the post-season with the potential of just one lefty out of the bullpen (Antonio Bastardo), so maybe you bite the bullet and roll the dice against NL MVP candidate Ryan Braun and the Brewers' flock of right-handers.
What is interesting about the Phillies' pitching staff, though, is that the platoon match-ups do not work the way they do with most pitchers. Pitchers tend to perform better against same-handed hitters because they can hide the ball slightly longer and the ball appears to come from a more favorable angle. That has not been the case for the Phillies this year.
Two starters and four key relievers have performed better against opposite-handed hitters, surprisingly. With talk of the Phillies potentially adding lefty Joe Savery to the roster, that now looks superfluous after perusing this information. In a late-innings situation where the Phillies need to get a crucial lefty out — say, Prince Fielder — they can instead call upon Vance Worley and expect him to get the job done.
This is an important distinction to make because it allows the Phillies the flexibility of entering the playoffs with an 11-man pitching staff. With the questionable durability of the Phillies' entire infield, bringing an extra infielder rather than an extra fielder can make or break the Phillies' late-game decision-making. The debate then revolves around carrying five or six outfielders (and conversely seven or six infielders). Ben Francisco could be left off in favor of Pete Orr if the Phillies want to be very safe against any potential injuries to their infielders.
Ultimately, some people may say it is an irrelevant discussion, but each roster spot should be treated as if it matters the same as any other. And, as the Phillies experienced in 2008, you never know who is going to be a key contributor. Would you have expected Eric Bruntlett, Geoff Jenkins, and Pedro Feliz to have played big roles in the Phillies' Game Five win over the Tampa Bay Rays? Do the best you can at maximizing each roster spot and you can safeguard against being wronged by Baseba'al.


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Inspired by delicious handmade macarons, our Rose Jam Bubbleroon features an intoxicating lemon-rose perfume. Rose oil and rose absolute not only smell amazing but they're also fantastic for soothing dry, sensitive skin. The rosy fragrance paired with the dreamy shea butter icing that sticks the two halves of this bubbleroon together makes for two majorly moisturizing, softening and luxurious soaks.
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Massachusetts used millions of dollars in taxpayer money last year to subsidize everything from cleaning polluted land in Quincy to filming the upcoming Mark Wahlberg movie "Ted," according to a new report by the Massachusetts Department of Revenue.
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Business owner's signs attack politicians, judgesBy KATHRYN MARCHOCKI
New Hampshire Union Leader
January 21. 2014 1:03AM
MANCHESTER - The president of The Mortgage Specialists Inc. is taking his allegations of widespread corruption by state officials, lawyers and judges straight to the public by posting them on large, flashing electronic signs outside his offices here and three other southern New Hampshire locations.
"We live in a state of corruption," Michael J. Gill said Monday.
"I have to send out the smoke signals. I have to stop asking people for news and make the news," he added.
Gill is owner and president of The Mortgage Specialists Inc., a mortgage loan origination company with headquarters in Plaistow and offices in Manchester, Nashua and Somersworth.
Gill said he put up the new message last week alleging corruption on the part of the state's Attorney General, Banking Department, courts, judges and public officials.
Gill, who lives in Derry, said he hopes the signs will get the attention of the public and prompt the FBI to launch an investigation into alleged corruption and cover-ups by these state officials and agencies.
The Banking Department and Attorney General's offices could not be reached for comment Monday because they were closed for the holiday. A spokeswoman for the state's judiciary system had no comment.
In August 2008, Gill and The Mortgage Specialists' compliance officer, Lisa Tracy, reached a settlement with state banking regulators in which they agreed to pay $425,000 and submit to independent review. The banking department had issued a cease-and-desist order July 23, 2008 against Mortgage Specialists and key employees alleging violations of state laws and regulations, including fraudulent loans and altered documents. Gill denied any fraud was ever involved.
Gill filed a complaint in federal court in Concord last April alleging the state's Banking Department abused its regulatory authority and conspired with "certain attorneys" to engage in conduct intended to put The Mortgage Specialists out of business and cover up its "oversight failures, including allowing Financial Resources Mortgage Inc. to run a Ponzi scheme for years with impunity."
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Shailene Woodley is set to bring author John Green's bestselling novel The Fault In Our Stars to life on the big screen after landing the coveted lead role.
The Descendants star has been confirmed to lead the cast as a teenage cancer sufferer who falls for a fellow patient at a support group, and director Josh Boone reveals the 21 year old was the clear frontrunner after auditioning for the romantic drama.
He tells Entertainment Weekly, "During our exhaustive search to find Hazel Grace Lancaster, I saw some stunning auditions by today's finest young actresses.
"Over 250 girls read for the part, but it wasn't until Shailene stepped in front of the camera that I truly saw Hazel for the first time. It was like lightning striking. I can't wait for the rest of the world to see what I have."
The script will be adapted for the film by (500) Days of Summer writers Scott Neustadter and Michael Weber, and will be produced by Wyck Godfrey, who worked on the Twilight film franchise.
A release date for the Fox studio project has yet to be set.
It's shaping up to be a great career year for Shailene Woodley - she's currently shooting the sequel for The Amazing Spider-Man, in which she'll portray Mary Jane Watson, and she has also landed the coveted lead in the adaptation of Veronica Roth's hit futuristic novel Divergent.


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I'm a native Texan and proud of it. I was born and raised in the BBQ Capital of Texas, Lockhart, but I've been in East Texas for about 25 years, so this is where my family and I call home. I have a patient, beautiful wife (she's a Big Sandy Wildcat) who has kept me in line since 1994, plus I have three great kids, even though they were the cause of my premature balding and greying. I went to college at UT-Austin and Texas A&M, mainly to become a meteorologist. But my love of country music took over, plus, in radio, you never have to grow up. As strange as this may sound, my perfect day would be to spend an entire day in a theater watching nothing but Disney movies. Bring on the popcorn!
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At Serious Drinks, we see more flavored spirits than you could possibly imagine. Green tea vodka. Cinnamon-roll vodka. We'd just about always prefer a fresh infusion to a bottled concoction, but we're always looking for a diamond in the rough. So we asked a number of bartenders: Are there any flavored spirits that you actually use?
Here's what they had to say.
"Dewar's Honey. It's great for a quick and instant hot toddy—just add hot water and lemon juice." — Ray Anguiano (Atwood Café)
"Often spirits are flavored with chemicals, and I usually I try to stay away from them. Deep Eddy, however, makes a sweet-tea vodka that is out of this world. Just smelling it, you can tell it's been infused with tea. And sweetened with honey, not sugar. Don't need to do anything to it except pour it over ice!" — Josh Berner (Zentan)
"I've recently been passionately into Santa Teresa's Araku. It's made with Santa Teresa Rum, estate-grown sugar, and estate-ground coffee. The flavor is pure and really concentrated. I love to pour it in my coffee or over ice cream." — Gianni Cionchi (FishTag)
"I did once do a drink with whipped cream vodka for shits and giggles. It was a fizz with the whipped cream vodka, lemon, raspberry syrup, egg white and soda. It tasted like bubble gum, so we called it Bubblegum Pop. I think Andy Warhol would've liked the homage." — Jonathan Harris (Firefly)
"Stoli Vanilla is one of my favorites to use with citrus- and pineapple juice-based cocktails." — Pablo "Papi" Hurtado (The Rittenhouse)
"Hangar One's Kaffir Lime, for gimlets or ginger limeade." — Jaime Pait (E&O Asian Kitchen)
"The best flavored spirit that I've come across this year is Chareau. It's an aloe vera liquor with fresh botanicals, fruits, and herbs, distilled up in Alameda, CA. Kurt Charron is the wizard behind this gem. It's great on its own with a couple of cubes, or in a simple rickey or gimlet with some gin. It's also absolutely amazing with pisco." — Chris Amirault (The Eveleigh)
"Right now, we are really excited about a cocoa rum liqueur called Cacao Prieto, which is distilled in Brooklyn. It brings a magnificent cocoa aroma and opulent rum flavor to cocktails." — Juan Coronado (The Bazaar by Jose Andres at SLS Hotel South Beach)
"Embarrassingly, I like a sriracha vodka that's coming out. (You're not printing this, right?)" — Justin Fairweather (Evelyn Drinkery)
"I always prefer to make infusions myself, but Cabin Fever Maple Whiskey straight on top of pancakes is a pretty good way to wreck a Sunday." — Dan Bronson (The Strand Smokehouse & Crescent & Vine)
"We have a very tongue-in-cheek, fun Jell-O shot program at Play, and I'm open to just about anything, when it comes to ingredients for them. That being said, I don't stock any flavored spirits on my bar." — Jim Kearns (PLAY)
"I prefer infusions to flavors as you get a cleaner, more genuine flavor, but I always keep an open mind. I find Hangar One's flavors to be more 'scented' than flavored and that is refreshing." — Lauren Lathrop Williams (Jsix Restaurant)
"Fireball is a new, cinnamon-flavored whisky that is really hot and a lot of bars have it stocked because the demand for it is huge. At Upstairs, we tend to just serve it as a straight drink or at customers' specific requests. However, I think mixed drinks will soon follow in a variation of twists on current cocktails like whiskey and ginger, Coke, etc." — Miri Kolici (Upstairs at the Kimberly Hotel)
What are your favorites, when it comes to flavored spirits?
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How to Play with Dolls
by Matthew Cheney
Jenny's father spent a year making a dollhouse for her, a three-storey mansion with four gables and six chimneys and secret passageways and a dumbwaiter and a tiny television that, thanks to a microchip, actually worked. He gave it to her on her seventh birthday. Jenny thanked him and kissed him and told him she had always wanted an asylum for her dolls.
Though he wanted her to make the house into a pleasant place for tea parties and soirees, Jenny's father stayed silent as he watched his daughter restrain her dolls with straightjackets fashioned from toilet paper. He kept his silence as she built prison bars with toothpicks and secured every door with duck tape. But as she placed the dolls into their cells and set a group of them to stare at the television, he could not observe quietly any longer, and so he went to his workshop and reorganized his impressive collection of antique awls, adzes, augers, and axes.
Jenny continued in his absence. She created schedules for the patients, times when they could wander through the halls or make origami birds or rant and rave without reproach, or sleep in the cots she had built out of matchboxes stolen from her late mother's private stash. She had considered appointing some of the dolls to be doctors, but she did not trust them, and so retained all supervisory duties for herself. She did not sleep, for fear that were she not to keep a vigilant watch, the dolls would revolt or, worse, harm themselves. She despaired, though, because none of the patients seemed to be making any progress. Instead, they were all becoming recalcitrant, and they did not want to wander or create anything, they stopped ranting, they let the television slip to a channel of grey static, they slept and slept and slept. Jenny tried extreme measures: water dunking, severe lighting, simulated earthquakes, and even, with a contraption made from spoons and Christmas tree lights, electrocution. Nothing got better, and the dolls might as well have been dead.
After a month, Jenny's father returned from his workshop with delicately-detailed miniature hot air balloons, and as Jenny sat beside her asylum and wept over the helpless despair of the dolls, her father orchestrated clever escapes for the patients, who proved to be masterful balloonists, each and every one. They flew to the paradise of Jenny's bed, where they waited until she returned one night, the asylum having been abandoned, and they embraced her in their tiny arms and sang ancient songs in lost languages while she slept, her face wet with tears from her dreams.
"How to Play with Dolls" by Matthew Cheney is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.


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Toss-Your-Own Salad
Guests create their own salad without leaving the table. Obviously the options can be changed based on cuisine, region, season, etc. Lime vinaigrette dressing recipe included.
2 cups assorted salad greens
1 tbsp. each __assorted toppers:
Cut-up Carrots
Cut-up Celery
Cubed cheese
Cubed ham
Cherry tomatoes
Dried apricots
Cashew halves
Lime Vinaigrette (recipe follows)
Lime Vinaigrette: Whisk together 1⁄4 cup lime juice, 1 tsp. grated lime zest, 1 tsp. minced shallot, 1⁄2 tsp. salt, pinch ground pepper, and pinch sugar. Slowly whisk in 1⁄2 cup olive oil until well blended. Use 1-2 tbsp. vinaigrette for each salad.
Yield: 3⁄4 cup.
1. Combine all ingredients except vinaigrette in mixing bowl. When ready to serve, toss with Lime Vinaigrette.